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FRIDAY, 23rd OCTOBER, 1953.

THE NORTHERN WINTER in the said Winter Assize County, who may be ASSIZE ORDER, 1953 brought before it, and any indictment which has been heretofore found by any in any of the aforesaid counties, the trial of which stands post- By the Governor in the Privy Council of Northern poned, and any person against whom depositions Ireland 'have been taken although not committed for trial, against whom a bill of indictment shall be preferred WAKEHURST by the authority of Her Majesty's Attorney-General WINTER ASSIZES, for Northern Ireland for any indictable offence committed within the said Winter Assize County, 1953 and shall have the same powers with respect to the In pursuance of the Winter Assizes Act, 1876, and trial of and passing sentence upon such prisoner or of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), person, and the trial of such indictment, as a Court 1877, and of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery and the Orders made by Her Majesty in Council would have had at the Assizes in the county where, but for the said Acts and Orders and this Order, under the .last-mentioned Act, and of all other such prisoner or person or such indictment would powers in that behalf, I, John de Vere, Baron have been tried; and for the purpose of giving effect Wakehurst, Knight Commander of the Most Dis- to any sentence, whether it be a sentence of capital tinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint punishment, or of imprisonment, shall have power to George, Governor of Northern Ireland, by and with commit such prisoner or person to prison there to be the advice and consent of Her Majesty's Privy dealt with according to law; and any indictment found Council in Northern Ireland, do hereby order as by the Grand Jury at the said Winter Assizes, follows: — the trial of which shall stand postponed, shall be a good and valid indictment to be tried at any Definition of the Winter Assize County future Court of Oyer and Terminer and general Gaol 1. The county of Antrim, the county of Armagh, Delivery or Quarter Sessions for the county where the county of Down, the county of Fermanagh, the the offence is charged to have been committed, or is county of Londonderry, the county of the City of deemed to have been committed. Londonderry, and the county of Tyrone, for the purposes of the next Winter Assizes and of this The Under Sheriff Order, shall be united together and form one county under the name of the Northern Ireland Winter 4. The Under Sheriff of the County of Antrim, Assize County. hereinafter called the said Under Sheriff, shall alone act for the purpose of the said Winter Assizes for Place for Holding the Assizes the said Winter Assize County, and, subject to the provisions of this Order, shall have jurisdiction for 2. The next Winter Assizes for the said Winter that purpose over the whole district constituting Assize County shall be held in the Court House of the said Winter Assize County; and precepts and the County of Antrim, at Belfast, in the County of other documents relating to the said Winter Assizes the City of Belfast. shall be addressed to him alone. Juries Jurisdiction 5. The precepts of the Judge or Judges to the 3. The Court at the Winter Assizes at Belfast said Under Sheriff shall direct him to summon, return, shall have jurisdiction to try any prisoner committed and empanel the Grand Jurors and Petty Jurors from for trial at Assizes or Quarter Sessions, and also the County of Antrim, and the Jurors so summoned, any person bound by recognizance to surrender and returned and empanelled, shall be deemed to be good take his or her trial at Assizes or Quarter Sessions and lawful persons of the body of each and all of